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  • Quiet night, that brings Best to the labourer, is the outlaw's day, In which he rises early to do wrong, And when his work is ended dares not sleep.

    Sleep   Night   Quiet  
    Philip Massinger (1817). “Beauties of Massinger”, p.246
  • When the labourer co-operates systematically with others, he strips off the fetters of his individuality, and develops the capabilities of his species.

    Karl Marx, Samuel Moore, Edward Aveling, Friedrich Engels (2011). “Capital, Volume I: A Critique of Political Economy”, p.361, Courier Corporation
  • No sooner is the exploitation of the labourer by the manufacturer, so far, at an end, that he receives his wages in cash, than he is set upon by the other portions of the bourgeoisie, the landlord, the shopkeeper, the pawnbroker, etc.

    Karl Marx (1950). “Communist Manifesto: The revolutionary text that changed the course of history”, p.1832, Harriman House Limited
  • It will probably surprise many who know nothing of Proudhon save his declaration that 'property is robbery' to learn that he was perhaps the most vigorous hater of Communism that ever lived on this planet. But the apparent inconsistency vanishes when you read his book and find that by property he means simply legally privileged wealth or the power of usury, and not at all the possession by the labourer of his products.

    Book   Mean   Usury  
    Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (1893). “Instead of a Book”, Ayer Company Pub
  • Ministry is being one of theses sent out ones, a labourer of love.

  • If a soldier or labourer complain of the hardship of his lot, set him to do nothing.

    Blaise Pascal (2016). “Pensées”, p.62, Open Road Media
  • We, at least, are not loyal men: we confess to having more respect and honour for the raggedest child of the poorest labourer in Ireland today than for any, even the most virtuous, descendant of the long array of murderers, adulterers and madmen who have sat upon the throne of England.

    Children   Men   Long  
    James Connolly (1987). “Labour in Irish history ; The re-conquest of Ireland ; Socialism and nationalism”
  • Labour, like all other things which are purchased and sold... has its natural and its market price.

    David Ricardo (1821). “On the Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation”, p.86
  • Manner and morals have improved, improved wages and world travel during the war have had effect, and the farm labourer now is an intelligent, self respecting workman, on a level at least with the town artisan. The village rustic of the past no longer exists outside of the comic papers.

    War   Intelligent   Past  
    Flora Thompson (2008). “The Peverel papers: nature notes written in Liphoo, Hampshire, 1921-1927”
  • This country has not been made by politicians, kings or governments. It has been made by farmers, labourers, our mothers and sisters and youth.

    Mother   Country   Kings  
  • One day I heard a speech of Hitler. In this speech he said that the German factory worker and the German labourer must make common cause with the German intellectual worker.

  • Being young you have not known The fool's triumph, nor yet Love lost as soon as won, Nor the best labourer dead And all the sheaves to bind.

    William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.99, Wordsworth Editions
  • It ought to be quite as natural and straightforward a matter for a labourer to take his pension from his parish, because he has deserved well of his parish, as for a man in higher rank to take his pension from his country, because he has deserved well of his country.

    Country   Men   Matter  
    'Unto this Last' (1862) preface, 6 (4)
  • That rifle hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or labourer's cottage is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there.

    Jobs   Wall   Gun  
    "A patriot after all, 1940-1941".
  • My dad was a labourer and my mum had exactly the same job as Noel Gallagher's mum - she was a dinner lady at our local school. Everyone comes over from Ireland and they get the same jobs.

    Jobs   Dad   School  
  • The purpose and effect of [land titles] have been to maintain, in the hands of robber, or slave holding class, a monopoly of all lands, and, as far as possible, of all other means of creating wealth; and thus to keep the great body of labourers in such a state of poverty and dependence, as would compel them to sell their labour to their tyrants for the lowest prices at which life could be sustained

    Mean   Land   Class  
  • In reality, the labourer belongs to capital before he has sold himself to capital.

    Karl Marx (2012). “The Essential Marx”, p.157, Courier Corporation
  • In proportion as the bourgeoisie, i.e., capital, is developed, in the same proportion is the proletariat, the modern working class, developed - a class of labourers, who live only so long as they find work, and who find work only so long as their labour increases capital. These labourers, who must sell themselves piecemeal, are a commodity, like every other article of commerce, and are consequently exposed to all the vicissitudes of competition, to all the fluctuations of the market.

    Karl Marx, David McLellan (2000). “Karl Marx: Selected Writings”, p.251, Oxford University Press, USA
  • In a land where sport is sacred, Where the labourer is God, You must pander to the people, Make a hero of a clod.

    Sports   Hero   Land  
    Henry Lawson (1967). “Collected Verse: 1885-1900”
  • All that we want to do away with is the miserable character of this appropriation, under which the labourer lives merely to increase capital , and allowed to live only so far as the interest to the ruling class requires it.

    Character   Class   Want  
    BookCaps, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (2012). “The Communist Manifesto in Plain and Simple English”, p.60, BookCaps Study Guides
  • Caste is not just a division of labour, it is a division of labourers.

    "The Annihilation of Caste". Essay by B. R. Ambedkar, ccnmtl.columbia.edu. 1936.
  • Let but faithful labourers be found, who will prove faithful to God, and there is no reason to fear that God will not prove faithful to them.

    Faithful   Reason   Found  
    James Hudson Taylor (2010). “China's Spiritual Need and Claims”, p.85, Cambridge University Press
  • Nature hav no music; nor would ther be for theeany better melody in the April woods at dawnthan what an old stone-deaf labourer, lying awakeo'night in his comfortless attic, might perchancebe aware of, when the rats run amok in his thatch?

    Running   Lying   Night  
  • We hope that the plain people - the labourers and small farmers - will take this opportunity of coming together and working out the National programme.

  • The beginnings of moral enterprises in this world are never to be measured by any apparent growth. ... At length comes the sudden ripeness and the full success, and he who is called in at the final moment deems this success his own. He is but the reaper and not the labourer. Other men sowed and tilled and he but enters into their labours.

    Success   Nature   Men  
  • The annual produce of the land and labour of any nation can be increased in its value by no other means, but by increasing either the number of its productive labourers, or the productive powers of those labourers who had before been employed.

    Mean   Land   Numbers  
    Adam Smith (1864). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.141
  • A labourer cannot sit at the table and write, but a man who has worked at the table all his life can certainly take to physical labour.

    Writing   Men   Tables  
  • The transfer of three shillings and sixpence a day to every labourer would not increase the quantity of meat in the country. There is not at present enough for all to have a decent share. What would then be the consequence?

    Country   Meat   Three  
    Thomas Malthus (2015). “An Essay on the Principle of Population: Illustrated”, p.40, eKitap Projesi
  • Where are we to look for the consumption required but among the unproductive labourers of Adam Smith?.

    Thomas Robert Malthus (1836). “Principles of Political Economy: Considered with a View to Their Practical Application”, p.406
  • What is necessary is to teach each class and profession the importance of the others. All together form one mighty body; labourer, peasant, and professional man.

    Men   Class   Together  
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